We Are All Strangers Here.

Thiruvananthapuram, India
May 2, 2007 1:10pm CST
We ordinarily forget this fact... We start taking everybody for granted. Have you ever thought about it / We make efforts to forget that everybody is a stranger. Isn't frightening to realize that we are surrounded by strangers. all our families , all our clubs, all our religions, all our nations are only an opportunity to hide the fact that we are all strangers ..!!
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@Bizziebod (3497)
2 May 07
It's one way of looking at it, but then again all the friends and family we have now would have once been a stranger. There is a saying that goes something like 'a stranger is a friend you just haven't met yet'
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@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
2 May 07
that's a cute qoute. and sounds really true to me. but at times, we feel that even our closest friends are strangers,too especially when they do some bad things at us or judge us by some of the decisions we've made. but still, it's life... we can't know everyone 100 percent.
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@Bizziebod (3497)
3 May 07
Oh I quite agree you can't know anyone 100% infact some people don't know themselves 100% either!
@KarenO52 (2950)
• United States
3 May 07
We are all human beings who may find that we have many things in common, and that's beautiful.
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@Darkwing (21583)
4 May 07
I beg to differ. All the people I have come to know on here, and who participate in my discussions are no longer strangers. They were when I first came here, but I have built up relationships... special relationships with several people here, and I'm growing to know them very well. I have even met up with a couple of them and would like to meet up with many more. In fact, a few of us are planning to meet up for a garden party and mass meeting, possibly next year, so you see, we don't have to be strangers. Brightest Blessings.
@Darkwing (21583)
4 May 07
I forgot to mention that those who plan to meet up will come to England from as far away as Australia, Canada and America... don't you think that's great?
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
3 May 07
It doesn't concern me that we are all strangers. I welcome meeting new people, no matter where they are from.
• Philippines
4 May 07
Hmmm, you have you're point but in my opinion, there's nothing wrong about it. Right? Strangers are usually defined as someone you don't know personally. But everyone starts as a stranger. Even when you were new born you were a stranger to everyone even to you family. The good thing is that with myLot, you able to know people around the world. Like it would pull down the barrier in every country.
@joice86 (1078)
• Philippines
4 May 07
Yes, we are really all strangers. Though they are our family, they are still different from us. We have different perspectives and views on everything...
@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
2 May 07
we don't know every single truth about a person even if that person is really close to us. there are times when we really don't know how they feel or what they think. and that's the time when i feel like they are a bit of a stranger to me. especially when at times, i feel that they are helding back something from me. but i think i should also respect their privacy. we all have that little "stranger in us to others" part of ourselves. but thing is... even if we all are strangers to each other, we are able to develop trust and understanding which is even sometimes beyond compare.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
3 May 07
I do not look at life that way. I feel secure enough that I don't look at life as a bunch of strangers, but as new and interesting people that I have met.
• United States
2 May 07
That's pretty strange... j/k, lol I think it's good that we get to know each other from all around the world. Maybe MyLot will help put myths & propaganda to rest.
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
2 May 07
I don't think mylot "strangers" can frighten me. They don't even know my SIN number or exactly what street I live on. As long as you don't tell everybody too much information, you don't have to worry about anything. Hackers are different, they steal information so that's the ones we still have to worry about. Why would you think your family and relatives are strangers? Doesn't that make you stranger to them too?
• United States
2 May 07
this is true however we must remember we are all also humans
@PsychoDude (2013)
• Netherlands
2 May 07
I wouldn't call the people surrounding me strangers, although if the question would be whether I would really know them, then I'd have to say no. But with 6.5 billion people in this world, how could one not be a stranger to most of them? And then still knowing them all in return has to be a part of it as well of course.